When comparing VLMC (video Lan Movie Creator) vs Pitivi, the Slant community recommends Pitivi for most people. In the question“What is the best free video editing software?” Pitivi is ranked 11th while VLMC (video Lan Movie Creator) is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Pitivi is:
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cross Platform
Pro GTK based
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
Pro Free and open source
Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on Gnome's source code page.
Pro Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg
Cons
Con Unstable
Although usable, this beta is still pretty unstable.
Con Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
Con No way to modify the speed of a clip
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
Con Lacks proxy editing
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.